| Wisdom 8:21
| And as I knew that I could not otherwise be continent, except God gave it, and this also was a point of wisdom, to know whose gift it was, I went to the Lord, and besought him, and said with my whole heart:
| Continent. All good must come from God. (Haydock) --- Chastity cannot be preserved without his aid. (St. Augustine, Confessions 6:11.) --- Yet this seems not to be the literal sense. Solomon prays for the acquisition of wisdom, (Calmet; Ecclesiasticus 6:28., and 15:1.; Menochius) which includes continence, religion, and every virtue. (Haydock)
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